"We get considered a dance band," says Sorbara, "but I'm not interested in being just that, because that's all there is on the radio, it's all dark and about getting fucked up, and I can't even relate to it. This record was a conscious effort to not step into the darkness — the songs are fun, we wanted to make light fun daytime songs because we get so sick of the darkness."

THE STROKES | COMEDOWN MACHINE | March 18, 2013 The Strokes burst out in a post-9/11 musical world with a sound that was compact and airtight, melodies coiled frictionlessly in beats and fuzzed vocals.

GLISS | LANGSOM DANS | February 01, 2013 If rock and roll is three chords and the truth, then the mutant genre offspring shoegaze can be summed up as one chord, three fuzzboxes, and a sullen, muttered bleat.